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February 6, 2006
What Is it about Cone-shaped Cups?
Last night I checked out a new bar on Atlantic Avenue called Dragon Lounge. Because I don't really review bars anymore, I'm not going to expend the energy in writing something exacting and witty about their impressive selection of well-crafted cocktails or their subtly sexy ambience. Nope, none of that right now. Suffice it to say the place is a charmer and I think I'd like to have a party there to celebrate A) my upcoming 25th Birthday B) our new(ish) domestic partnership C) our upcoming trip to Central America. Those seem like three fine reasons to celebrate.
But while drinking my Jasmine Martini (that would be with homemade jasmine tea liquor and some...other kind of liquor) and feeling like a pretentious jackass who orders things like jasmine martinis, I was reminded that I barely had the capabilities to drink from the glass at all. And no, I was
not drunk, but imagine how much harder it would have been if I had been! And so, here in this forum, I would like to complain about cone-shaped drinking glasses, or more commonly referred to as the martini glass. Some might (ahem) argue that a martini isn't a martini if it isn't in a martini glass...but to that I say, wouldn't you be more relaxed and enjoy your martini more if you weren't so worried about the liquid sloshing right out of it? Who does this custom serve? Only those who have fine balancing abilities? The act of walking my martini from the bar back to wherever I'm sitting reminds me of those pressure-filled relay races common to children's birthday parties in the mid-80s (and I'm sure at other times too but that's when I was a kid). The kind where you have to carry an egg on a spoon, the spoon is being held in your mouth, all the while walking really fast to deliver it to the next kid on the relay race line. Do kids still play these kinds of stressful games? Or are they too busy going to oral sex parties? Questions.
Now usually, I try to just avoid the martini glass altogether, but where I work, we only have access to what I refer to as the disposable martini glass Before this job, I had never seen even seen these apparatus (nerd note: contrary to popular belief the plural is indeed apparatus and not apparati). I couldn't find a fully assembled one depicted anywhere online but I did find the two components and so here they are: 1) The Cone Base and 2) The Disposable Plastic Liner Cup.
These darn cups don't hold enough liquid, they are awkward both to carry and to sip from, and you have to reuse the base over and over because we are allowed one of these per person. The whole experience I find rather demeaning and, ultimately, dehydrating.
Posted by debbie at February 6, 2006 11:28 PM